Improvement in tree-protector



ls'rninvn BRUNsoN, or BEN-Tou" HARBOR, MIcHIeAN.

ALetters-Patent No. 104,418, dated .fame 21, 1870.

v`IMPRO'VIIVIEIN'T IN TREE-PROTECTOR.

` Schedule referred tojn these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

.To all whom it may conce/rm,

Be it known that I, STERNE BaU'NsoN-, of Benton i Harbor, in the county of Berrien, in the State of Michigan, have invented a new andlmproved TreePro- -tectorjy and `Tdofherelofy declare that the following is a full andnexaet `description thereof, :reference` being` hadjto the accompanying drawing and to the "letters of4 reference'lmarked thereon. l 1 l l'lhe'x'iature of' my'inventionconsists in adapting a device to thebase of a tree, of such' construction and character as to preyent thedepositing of insects eggs, or'other larvte, at orncar the root of the tree, "to afterward hatcliinto borers or 'other vermin to injure the tree, or the fruit or` foliageof'the same.

Toenable others skilled in the arttomake and use myinvention, `Iwill.` proceed to describe its construe#v ionV and operation. ij t; .Y i

nIleut out. ofvpastcboard xor paper, either plain or tarred, av circular pieceyasshownin tig. 1, wit-h a cen-` ter hole at Aout longitudinally arond the inside circle for a shortjdistanceoutward, as shown at B, so as toenable'thematerial :toleasily bend and enlarge 'or diminish the si'zefofj hole, and at the same time .to`

` i make va sotftyieldingbearing `about the body of the 'Froi-the'vsaid inside hole outward the material is -ent entirely open upon` one side, so that the whole can be throwninto aconical shape, Vmore or less, as shown fBy being`.brought into a conical shape it is .readily made to encircle a larger or smaller tree, and to tit the body with tolerable closeness, while the lower edge of the cone is buried, moreor less, inthe soil. v

The device'is kept firmly to the tree by means of ties, o r small yielding coil springs, (O O in iig. 2.)

These springs, or yielding ties, allow the device to open and yield to the growth of the tree.

` It Ywill be seen that thedevice closes around the tree so close'as to exclude the entrance of insects of any mischievous size at the top, and being also unbedded in the earth at the bottom, cuts oft' all approach in that direction to all insects, millers, or moths, that ldo not burrow into the earth.

The principal object is to head off-the insect that layslits eggs at the root and around the collar of the tree, out of which eggs vvborers are hatched toafterward invade the tree.V v

The design of my invention is to make and apply a protector that will protectrthe top root and surf'ace collar of the tree from all insect larv, out of' which evil might arise.

' Ialso per-ferrite the or less small airhol`es, to allowr of free circulation of air inside and yet exclude'noxious insects.

Tarr'ed paper is found to be a good article of which to make the protectors, both from its shedding water,

and because the tar is offensive to most insects.

In order telit the protector closely-about the tree, I provide the edge of -the hole A with a series' of incisions, by-which pointsnG are formed which extend upon-and rest flatly against the trunk of the tree.

Claim.

What I claim as m'y invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentis- The conical or inclined tree-protector, constructed as described, with the points G and yielding ties C,

and adapted to lit around a tree just above the ground,

with its lower edge imbedded in the soil, as herein set forth, for the purpose specified.

STER-NE BRUNSON'.

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Witnesses:

QG. H. FROST, D. I. POUND.

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